As I write this, it’s about 12:30 AM on the day after Memorial Day. Last week was the end of my first year at MIT and the halfway point to my Master’s degree, and the several days’ worth of aftermath so far has been filled with friends, films, food, family and fun. The biggest news: I am now a cousin once removed, with the birth of Samuel Lanier to my cousin Phil and his wife Emily.
Actually, there’s tons of stuff that I want to write about, but it will have to wait until later. My folks are in town at the moment, and we’re getting up early tomorrow to hit Boston again, so more details will have to wait until later. Soon enough this new version of TOTQ will be made truly public, and I’m sure I’ll have much more to say then. Stay tuned.

Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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